BROWNLOW, W[illiam] G. and PRYNE, A[bram].

Ought American Slavery To Be Perpetuated?

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BROWNLOW, W[illiam] G. and PRYNE, A[bram]. Ought American Slavery To Be Perpetuated? A Debate between Rev. W.G. Brownlow and Rev. A. Pryne. Held at Philadelphia, September, 1858. Phila. Published for the Authors by J.B. Lippincott & Co., [1858]. 1st ed. 305pp. Portrait frontis., portrait. Orig. embossed cloth. Some wear to spine ends and corners, light speckling to cloth, a bit of light scattered foxing, else very good. Afro-Americana 1750. William Brownlow was a Methodist minister, newspaper publisher and post-war U.S. senator and governor of Tennessee . Brownlow was strongly pro-slavery in the 1850s. He gave a Scriptural defense of slavery in a speech delivered in Knoxville in 1857, and the following year, issued a challenge to Northern abolitionists to debate the issue. The challenge was initially accepted by Frederick Douglass but Brownlow refused to debate him because of his race. The challenge was then taken up by Abram Pryne of McGrawville, New York, a clergyman with the Congregational Church, and editor of Douglass' abolitionist newspaper.

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